Sandy Schuman Storyteller, Musician, Educator “Creating Stories Since 1951”
There is always another side to the story.

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New York Tales: Tall & True

Familiar Songs & their Unfamiliar Stories

Jewish Stories Every Person Should Know

My Father was a Storyteller

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Stories, Resource Articles, Supplementary Materials

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New York History and Folklore

Articles & Stories

• My Problematic Claim to Fame aka How I won the Liar’s Contest. Voices (2020).
• The First Word Spoken on the Moon Owes a Debt to “Old Kinderhook”!
• Bill Greenfield, “The Goldarndest Liar”
• The Fly Fishing Contest at Chelm’s Pond Welcome to Chelm’s Pond (2012).

The Erie Canal

Articles & Stories

• A Land Acknowledgement for the 200^th Anniversary of the Erie Canal
• The Erie Canal Song: “Fifteen Years” vs. “Fifteen Miles” — Why It Matters!
• Erie Canal Scenes: Hollywood Realistic
• Videos to Accompany “The Erie Canal: A Story of Building the Impossible”
• Supplementary Materials: “The Erie Canal: A Story of Building the Impossible”
• See the Erie Canal at the Movies
• New York’s Erie Canal Coin - Part I
• New York’s Erie Canal Coin - Part II
• “A Girl on a Barge” – An Erie Canal Story from 1927

Familiar Songs & their Unfamiliar Stories

Articles & Stories

• Supplementary Materials: “American Anthems”
• Suffrage’s Secret Song!
• 1801 Election: The People’s Right aka Fair and Free Elections
• Living in the Country - PartI
• Living in the Country - Part II: Pete Seeger’s 1959 Tribute to Lead Belly
• Be Kinder to One Another: A Tribute to George Gershwin at 120
• We’re in the Same Boat, Brother
• “Goodnight, Pete, I'll see you in my dreams”
• Santa’s COVID Guidance

Jewish Stories Every Person Should Know

Articles & Stories

• What is a Jewish Story A Rabbi, a Prophet, and a King Walk into a Bar (2025)
• A Twenty Dollar Bill. the Jewish Literary Journal (2025).
• Betting on the Bible. Tablet (2017).
• Same and Different: The Never-Ending Story of Chanukah. Story Club Magazine(2016).
• Sister Lillian Harrington’s Midrash
• I Got Latkes
• The Jewish Grimm: Dov Noy
• Hunkering Up!

My Father was a Storyteller

Articles & Stories

• It’s Hard to Tell a Hug Stories We Tell (2014).
• The Silcox Decision, the Living Wage, and the Grand Prize Slogan. Memoir Magazine (2018).
• My Father was a Songwriter
• Sam’s Saxophone
• Happy 80th Birthday Selma From Your Little Brother. The Poet Magazine(2022).
• Unfriended (aka Nieve Blanca and the Seven Suitemates). Distressing Damsels (2017).

About Storytelling

Articles & Stories

• Sandy’s Seven Sagacious Storytelling Sayings. Storytelling Magazine (2019).
• You know you're a storyteller if… Storytelling Magazine(2015).
• Getting to the Essence of Storytelling
• The Words We Use: Storytelling, Folktale, Legend, Myth …
• Stop Action Storytelling The Story Cookbook (2019).

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